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• Commented on Unwanted Blogging Vacation
  Much sympathy to you and yours....
• Commented on Book day!
  Wheeee! Some cliffhanger! Are we really going to have to wait two years for a resolution? Troutwaxer @132, the intertubes are groaning under the weight of Plush Cthulhus. Everybody who wants one has one....
• Commented on The World of Tomorrow
  It would be nice if the carbon crash simply led to a reorganisation of the global economy around renewables, but all the evidence suggests that big oil (which includes the Russian government for practical purposes) will fight to the last...
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  Just putting this out there. From about 1980. Plus ca change......
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  People need to think a bit before predicting "glass parking lot time" in the event of a NK first strike. I've no doubt that the US and China between them could do this, and probably have plans as to how,...
• Commented on Laundry summer madness sale!
  it's EU territory which I think is exclusive to the UK publisher Expect that to change in the next couple of years, then....
• Commented on The sudden eruption of news
  People find it difficult to get their heads around May, because, as a couple of links posted here have shown, she is actually a conservative (small c), and most of us have no memory of a government led by such...
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  But surprisingly strong pareidolia: 2016: All Hell breaks loose across the Anglosphere, potentially endangering the gains of the Enlightenment; 1914: Lamps go out all over Europe and they do not see them lit again in their lifetime; 1815: Final defeat...
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  Banks did, for sure, and very nasty he made it. I can't comment on Anthony, because I haven't read any of his work for half a century....
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  ... we might just be using better technology to grow a crop of physically fit misogynist neo-Nazis this time around. I'm afraid that was my immediate reaction. Fingers crossed heir gaming/sports identity will come to outweigh their political one....
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  I'm surprised that the concept of "Play" hasn't had more play in this thread tbh. Play is, after all what most animals more complex than a nudibranch do with their time when they're not taking care of food, shelter, sleep...
• Commented on "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" 2017 continued.
  It wouldn't be hard to play the "Russian hacking" card wrt Btrexit, since Farage has already dealt us the hand, face up. What might be harder would be making most of the media pay attention....
• Commented on Evolver
  Is there any evidence that human (H.sapiens sapiens) grade intelligence is likely to re-evolve? It's only happened once in the ±500My that metazoa have been around to evolve it. Also, Fermi's paradox. With all due respect to Simon Conway Morris...